I’ve always learned that if your toast is too dark you can’t eat it cause it might give you cancer. How can eating something burnt create cancer cells?
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like other people have said, the maillard reaction creates compounds believed to cause cancer
but also bear in mind that the impact of something like eating a couple slices of burnt toast a week on your lifetime cancer risk is going to be extremely small, and that creates a problem, how do you identify like a .001% impact on something?
the answer is you have people fill out surveys listing what they ate that week, and then gather their medical records, and smash graphs together until two lines line up. then you put out a press release that eating hot dogs gives you colon cancer, and it ends up on buzzfeed and you get money, and that’s what science is all about.
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